DOCSLIB.ORG

Cartography [email protected] HORDERN HOUSE RARE BOOKS • MANUSCRIPTS • PAINTINGS • PRINTS

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Cartography Books@Hordern.Com HORDERN HOUSE RARE BOOKS • MANUSCRIPTS • PAINTINGS • PRINTS HORDERN HOUSE Occasional List Cartography [email protected] HORDERN HOUSE RARE BOOKS • MANUSCRIPTS • PAINTINGS • PRINTS Occasional list: Cartography We are pleased to offer this diverse selection of cartographic material from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. In addition to freestanding maps the list includes printed books that contain their charts as intend- ed, as well as a separate section of historically significant atlases. The list concludes with some scarce books relating to the history of map- making, and a handful of recently published reference books. This is a concise list; please note that every item is listed on our website at www.hordern.com with further extensive information, images and condition reports: simply click on the hyperlinked text description in this pdf (or search at hordern.com). Naturally, should you wish place an order or ask a question please feel free to contact us directly at [email protected] 1. Maps, items 1-22 2. Atlases 23-34 3. Books with maps 35-47 4. History of cartography 48-66 77 VICTORIA STREET•POTTS POINT•SYDNEY NSW 2011•AUSTRALIA TELEPHONE (+612) 9356 4411•FAX (+612) 9357 3635 www.hordern.com •[email protected] Part One: Maps 1) [BAUDIN] FREYCINET, Louis de. Carte Générale de la Terre Napoléon. Engraved chart measuring 580 x 850 mm. (sheet size), blank margins slightly rubbed with a few a few closed tears (now expertly repaired, engraving unaffected); otherwise fine overall. Paris Gravé par Tardieu 1808. Impressive early chart of the South Australian coastline revealing French colonial ambitions for Australia, a result of the survey undertaken during the Baudin expedition in Australian waters during 1802. As the title “Terre Napoleon” strongly implies, the map is tangible proof of French colonial ambitions for Australia. At the time of the Baudin voyage a Napoleonic order existed to conquer the continent, a plan ultimately frustrated by defeat in Europe. The place names engraved on this chart maps are almost entirely in French (interestingly, when the second edition of Baudin’s voyage was published in 1824 most of these names were discretely changed into English). $7250 3912509 2) BELLIN, Jacques-Nicolas. Carte des variations de la Boussole et des vents généraux que l’on trouve dans les mers les plus frequentées. Large engraved chart measuring 620 x 930 mm., very good condition. Paris Dépôt Génerale de la Marine 1765. Mid eighteenth century world map showing magnetic variation through the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This map represents decades of work by several enlightenment luminaries. The scientific study of magnetic variation was initiated by Edmund Halley and William Dampier, who respectively commanded the first two English scientific voyages and took magnetic bearings at sea. In the early eighteenth century Halley published a world map of compass variations incorporating data from many sources and the map was re-published several times. At this time Halley introduced an important innovation into mapmaking with ‘isogonic lines’ representing equal magnetic values. However, as magnetic variation remains in constant flux Halley’s chart inevitably became obsolete. In 1744 the Royal Society commissioned two of its members, William Mountain and James Dodson, to collate and compile some 50,000 individual magnetical observations gleaned from the logbooks of Royal Navy and East India Company officers. The project was so complex that both men ultimately conceded they did not believe variation came ‘under the direction of any one general law’. This French map was prepared by Jacques-Nicolas Bellin and published by the Ministry of the Marine. As one of the pre-eminent geographers of pre-Revolutionary France, Bellin brings Halley’s original project up to date to the year 1765. Bellin is remembered for the quality of his work and prodigious output (including the impressive atlases Neptune Français of 1735 and the Hydrographie Français of 1756- 1765). Among other achievements, Bellin contributed to Diderot’s Encyclopédie and was elected a member of the Royal Society in London. $12,750 3912467 3) COOK, Captain James. A General Chart of the Island of Newfoundland with the rocks and soundings drawn from surveys taken by… James Cook and Michael Lane… Engraved chart, 560 x 750 mm. A little rubbed and toned, very good condition. London printed for Robert Sayer and John Bennet, 53 Fleet Street 1775. Attractive large-format map of the entire coast of Newfoundland, and a striking testament to Cook’s incredible skill as a cartographer: this map was used in a beautiful demonstration in the recent BBC series on Cook hosted by Vanessa Collingridge in which his map was overlaid with satellite photographs to show the fundamental accuracy of his work. His name, as well as that of Matthew Lane, is printed prominently in the cartouche. It was the Newfoundland survey which established Cook’s reputation as the pre-eminent naval hydrographer and ultimately led to his being appointed to the command of the Endeavour. After serving his apprenticeship aboard Whitby colliers, Cook entered the Royal Navy in 1758 to fight the French in North America, and famously charted the St. Lawrence River at Quebec. The need for a Newfoundland survey arose at the conclusion of the Seven Year’s War, where the English asserted their fishing rights in the region. French fisherman were allowed limited concessions for catching and curing cod from these rich waters, but to enforce the terms of the Paris treaty of 1763 new and accurate charts were needed. Cook was selected as master of the Greville in 1764, and the Newfoundland surveys occupied the next three years. During this time he observed and recorded a solar eclipse using a quadrant by London instrument maker John Bird (whose tools were likewise used by Cook and astronomer Charles Green during their observation of the Transit of Venus), and prepared a paper read before the Royal Society in 1766. His work in the region ‘established for him a well-deserved reputation with the higher authorities’ (Rear-Admiral H.P. Douglas, Cook as a Hydrographical Surveyor). The publication of Cook’s survey work fell to Thomas Jeffreys, and this map was included in his American Atlas of 1775. Phillips, p.591; Skelton 'James Cook. Surveyor of Newfoundland.'. $1500 4311679 4) CROSS, Joseph. Chart of part of New South Wales with plans of the harbours. Respectfully dedicated to John Oxley, Esq., Surveyor-General. Large hand-coloured engraved map, 1180 x 650 mm., dissected and backed on linen as issued; very good, in an old case-binding of blue half pebbled morocco, lettered to spine, bumped. London Joseph Cross, but sold by James Wyld 1828. One of the great maps of New South Wales: this very fine and handsome map is notable for a series of important inset charts including Moreton Bay, Port Jackson, and Port Phillip. One of the most consulted of any of the Australian maps of this era, it is dedicated to John Oxley, then Surveyor General of New South Wales. The map was evidently a publishing success, as Cross printed several different versions in the period. The first version of the map was issued in 1826 and is easily recogniseable as it features a series of vignette views. In 1827 the basic map was reused but this time the vignettes were replaced by inset maps, and over ensuing years this version of the map was subtly updated and re-issued: this is the 1828 issue “corrected”. Any issue is now of some rarity. The inset charts show: Moreton Bay, Port Macquarie, Port Stephens, Port Hunter, Broken Bay, Port Jackson, Botany Bay, Jervis Bay, Twofold Bay, Western Port, and Port Phillip. There is also an inset depiction of the entire Australian coastline. The map also prints a very detailed picture of the state of inland exploration, notably including the relatively recent discoveries of Hume and Hovell. The London publisher Cross was responsible for any number of important publications relating to Australia in the 1820s and 1830s, and was perhaps the most influential promoter of the colonies at that time. Tooley knew this 1828 issue from a copy in his own collection. This is the Ingleton copy with shelf mark, noted in his catalogue as “extremely rare”. Tooley, 357; Worms & Bayntun-Williams, 'British Map Engravers', pp. 171 (noting the 1827 issue). $18,500 4008014 5) DE WIT, Frederick. Tabula Indiæ Orientalis Emendata a F. de Wit. Engraved map, 460 x 560 mm., superb handcolouring; in fine condition, framed. Amsterdam c. 1680. Fine early map of the East Indies showing the discoveries of Tasman by Frederick de Wit, at a time when he was one of the foremost map-makers in Holland. His firm’s ‘maps were distinguished by their excellent craftsmanship, exactness and beauty…’ (Schilder). This map stretches from Persia in the west to China and Taiwan in the east, and shows northern “Hollandia Nova”, bearing three significant place names: “Van Diemens Landt”; “Baya van Diemen” and “Vuyle hoeck” (the last a disparaging term meaning something like “rotten corner” and evidently relating to the inhospitable coastline). All of these relate to Abel Tasman’s second voyage of 1644. ‘Frederick de Wit, an apprentice of William Blaeu… became one of the most prominent and successful map engravers and publishers in Amsterdam following the decline of the Blaeu and Jansson establishments. His work, notable for the beauty of the engraving and colouring, was very popular and editions were issued many years after his death…’ (Parry, The Cartography of the East Indian Oceans, p. 118). The map is handcoloured in outline and decorated by a beautiful cartouche showing four dramatically-posed costumed figures of the East. Not in Tooley; Parry, The Cartography of the East Indian Islands, plate 4.29. $5850 2810828 6) DUPERREY, Louis-Isidor.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • AUSTRALIA: COLONIAL LIFE and SETTLEMENT Parts 1 to 3
    AUSTRALIA: COLONIAL LIFE AND SETTLEMENT Parts 1 to 3 AUSTRALIA: COLONIAL LIFE AND SETTLEMENT The Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825, from the State Records Authority of New South Wales Part 1: Letters sent, 1808-1825 Part 2: Special bundles (topic collections), proclamations, orders and related records, 1789-1825 Part 3: Letters received, 1788-1825 Contents listing PUBLISHER'S NOTE TECHNICAL NOTE CONTENTS OF REELS - PART 1 CONTENTS OF REELS - PART 2 CONTENTS OF REELS - PART 3 AUSTRALIA: COLONIAL LIFE AND SETTLEMENT Parts 1 to 3 AUSTRALIA: COLONIAL LIFE AND SETTLEMENT The Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825, from the State Records Authority of New South Wales Part 1: Letters sent, 1808-1825 Part 2: Special bundles (topic collections), proclamations, orders and related records, 1789-1825 Part 3: Letters received, 1788-1825 Publisher's Note "The Papers are the foremost collection of public records which relate to the early years of the first settlement and are an invaluable source of information on all aspects of its history." Peter Collins, former Minister for the Arts in New South Wales From the First Fleet in 1788 to the establishment of settlements across eastern Australia (New South Wales then encompassed Tasmania and Queensland as well), this project describes the transformation of Australia from a prison settlement to a new frontier which attracted farmers, businessmen and prospectors. The Colonial Secretary's Papers are a unique source for information on: Conditions on the prison hulks Starvation and disease in early Australia
    [Show full text]
  • Issue 31, June 2019
    From the President I recently experienced a great sense of history and admiration for early Spanish and Portuguese navigators during visits to historic sites in Spain and Portugal. For example, the Barcelona Maritime Museum, housed in a ship yard dating from the 13th century and nearby towering Christopher Columbus column. In Lisbon the ‘Monument to the Discoveries’ reminds you of the achievements of great explorers who played a major role in Portugal's age of discovery and building its empire. Many great navigators including; Vasco da Gama, Magellan and Prince Henry the Navigator are commemorated. Similarly, in Gibraltar you are surrounded by military and naval heritage. Gibraltar was the port to which the badly damaged HMS Victory and Lord Nelson’s body were brought following the Battle of Trafalgar fought less than 100 miles to the west. This experience was also a reminder of the exploits of early voyages of discovery around Australia. Matthew Flinders, to whom Australians owe a debt of gratitude features in the June edition of the Naval Historical Review. The Review, with its assessment of this great navigator will be mailed to members in early June. Matthew Flinders grave was recently discovered during redevelopment work on Euston Station in London. Similarly, this edition of Call the Hands focuses on matters connected to Lieutenant Phillip Parker King RN and his ship, His Majesty’s Cutter (HMC) Mermaid which explored north west Australia in 1818. The well-known indigenous character Bungaree who lived in the Port Jackson area at the time accompanied Parker on this voyage. Other stories in this edition are inspired by more recent events such as the keel laying ceremony for the first Arafura Class patrol boat attended by the Chief of Navy.
    [Show full text]
  • "AUSTRALIA and HER NAVIGATORS" [By the President, COMMANDER NORMAN S
    78 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS "AUSTRALIA AND HER NAVIGATORS" [By the President, COMMANDER NORMAN S. PIXLEY, C.M.G., M.B.E., V.R.D., Kt.O.N., F.R.Hist.S.Q.] (Read at a Meeting of the Society on 24 September 1970.) Joseph Conrad in his writings, refers to "The mysteriously born traditions of seacraft, command, and unity in an occu­ pation in which men's lives depend on each other." Still true today, how much more was this so with the mariners of long ago, who sailed in smaU ships for thousands of lonely leagues through unknown seas, for on them alone rested the safety of the ship and all on board. Dr. Johnson wrote "No man will be a saUor who has con­ trivance to get himself into jaU, for being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned." There was more than an element of truth in this, for the seaman who refused to sail could be clapped in jail; whUst THE PRESIDENT, COMMANDER NORMAN S PIXLEY 79 those who did sail faced months in a confined space with acute discomfort, severe punishment at times, and provisions and water which deteriorated as the voyage proceeded. Scurvy kiUed more than storm and shipwreck until James Cook in his first voyage proved that it could be prevented. Clothing was rarely changed, the sailor coming wet to his hammock from his watch on deck in bad weather. Rats and cockroaches lived and thrived amongst the pro­ visions, adding to the problems of hygiene and health.
    [Show full text]
  • 'The Publishers of the 1723 Book of Constitutions', AQC 121 (2008)
    The Publishers of the 1723 Book of Constitutions Andrew Prescott he advertisements in the issue of the London newspaper, The Evening Post, for 23 February 1723 were mostly for recently published books, including a new edition of the celebrated directory originally compiled by John Chamberlayne, Magnae Britanniae Notitia, and books offering a new cure for scurvy and advice Tfor those with consumption. Among the advertisements for new books in The Evening Post of 23 February 1723 was the following: This Day is publiſh’d, † || § The CONSTITUTIONS of the FREE- MASONS, containing the Hiſtory, Charges, Regulations, &c., of that moſt Ancient and Right Worſhipful Fraternity, for the Uſe of the Lodges. Dedicated to his Grace the Duke of Montagu the laſt Grand Maſter, by Order of his Grace the Duke of Wharton, the preſent Grand Maſter, Authoriz’d by the Grand Lodge of Maſters and War- dens at the Quarterly Communication. Ordered to be publiſh’d and recommended to the Brethren by the Grand Maſter and his Deputy. Printed for J. Senex, and J. Hooke, both over againſt St Dunſtan’s Church, Fleet-ſtreet. An advertisement in similar terms, also stating that the Constitutions had been pub- lished ‘that day’, appeared in The Post Boy of 26 February, 5 March and 12 March 1723 Volume 121, 2008 147 Andrew J. Prescott and TheLondon Journal of 9 March and 16 March 1723. The advertisement (modified to ‘just publish’d’) continued to appear in The London Journal until 13 April 1723. The publication of The Constitutions of the Free-Masons, or the Book of Constitutions as it has become generally known, was a fundamental event in the development of Grand Lodge Freemasonry, and the book remains an indispensable source for the investigation of the growth of Freemasonry in the first half of the eighteenth century.
    [Show full text]
  • Newsletter June 2020
    Newsletter of the TOWNSVILLE MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY Inc. June 2020 1/27 Barbeler Street Currajong Q 4812 PO Box 785 Hyde Park Q 4812 Monthly committee meetings Special Points of Interest: are held at the Museum on the • The Story of John Joseph Oxley third Monday of the month at • Part 6—Shunting in Townsville by Nick Shailer ten o’clock. All committee • Acquisition—Townsville Horticultural Society Programmes 1939—1955 members are notified a week prior to the meeting. A MESSAGE FROM OUR PRESIDENT So many plans for 2020 and then chaos – along comes COVID 19. Even cyclones don’t cause so much drama. The Museum has been closed since the 19th March but the good news is we are “open” again as of Monday 15th June. There will be a lot of challenges for the volunteers with new regulations but it will be so nice to see visitors once again. Even though the Museum has been closed, work still goes on. Some displays have been upgraded and new ones added. Earlier in the year all the Museums in Townsville worked on a combined Museums Brochure so visitors to the City will have all the information available in one brochure so they can plan tours of each one. Townsville has 5 Museums – Townsville Museum, Army Museum, RAAF Museum, Maritime Museum, Museum of Tropical Queensland and a Family History John Oxley, n.d. association. Take a trip across the Bay to Magnetic Island and visit their wonderful Museum. These brochures are available at all accommodation and State Library of New some cafe outlets in the City, Our planned “Picnic in the Park” open day at South Wales, 10806 the Museum in May and Heritage Day in June were all cancelled, but I work on the philosophy “there is always next year”.
    [Show full text]
  • The Jagiellonian Globe, Utopia and Australia
    Paper 2: The Jagiellonian Globe, Utopia and Australia Robert J. King [email protected] ABSTRACT The globe, dating from around 1510, held by the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland, depicts a continent in the Indian Ocean to the east of Africa and south of India, but labeled “America”. The globe illustrates how geographers of that time struggled to reconcile the discoveries of new lands with orthodox Ptolomaic cosmography. It offers a clue as to where Thomas More located his Utopia, and may provide a cosmographic explanation for the Jave la Grande of the Dieppe school of maps. BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE From 1975 to 2002, Robert J King was secretary to various committees of the Australian Senate, including the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade. He is now an independent researcher at the National Library of Australia in Canberra with a special interest in the European expansion into the Pacific in the late 18th century. He is the author of The Secret History of the Convict Colony: Alexandro Malaspina’s report on the British settlement of New South Wales published in 1990 by Allen & Unwin. He has also authored a number of articles relating to colonial/imperial rivalry in the eighteenth century and was a contributing editor to the Hakluyt Society’s 3 volume publication, The Malaspina Expedition, 1789-1794: Journal of the Voyage by Alexandro Malaspina The Jagiellonian Globe, Utopia and Australia1 The appearance in the mid-sixteenth century of Jave la Grande in a series of mappemondes drawn by a school of cartographers centred
    [Show full text]
  • CLIVE FARAHAR RARE BOOKS 11 Middle Street Montacute Somerset TA15 6UZ U.K
    MONTACUTE MISCELLANY CATALOGUE 94 ITEM 15 CLIVE FARAHAR RARE BOOKS 11 Middle Street Montacute Somerset TA15 6UZ U.K. +44(0)1935 593086 +44(0)7780 434713 [email protected] www. clivefarahar.com CONTENTS AFRICA 3,7,8,15,49. JAPAN 21,30. AMERICAN JUVENILE MANUSCRIPTS 8,10,11,18,20,49. BROADSHEETS 1. MEDCINE 20,38. THE AMERICAS MIDDLE EAST 67. 2,16,23,32,33,62,63,70,89. MILITARY 60. ARAB DICTIONARY POOLE 35. NELSON VICTORY COPPER 69. ASIA 51,52,61,64. PHOTOGRAPHY 29,31. AUSTRALASIA 36 POLARIS NEUCLEAR BAKER (SIR SAMUEL) 3 PROGRAMME 47 BURTON (CAPT. SIR R.F.) 7,8,9. RAEMAEKERS GREAT WAR 97 CALLIGRAPHY 10,11. SHIPWRECKS 54 – 58. CATHOLICISM 12. SLAVERY 50. CHINA 4,6,13,31,40-46, 71-87. TURKEY 66. FRANCE 17. WALEY (ARTHUR)) 71-87. GENERAL 5,10. WEST INDIES 88 GREENLAND 68. WILDE (OSCAR) 89. INDIA 19,22,24 – 29,37, WILLIAM IV CORONATION 90. 48,65,91,97. WORLD WARS I & II 92 - 97. The prices are in pounds sterling. Postage is added at cost. Any item may be returned within a week of receipt for whatever reason. VAT is charged where relevant. My registration number is 941496700. For Bank Transfers National Westminster C.R. Farahar Account no. 50868608 Sort code 60 02 05 1. AMERICAN JUVENILE. A Collection of 43 Hand Coloured Catch Penny Broad Sheets each with between 12 and 20 woodcut illustrations, numbered 7,8,18,19,21 - 50,52-60.12 x 16 ins. 28 x 40.5 cms. some marginal staining affecting a few, Printed expressly for the Humoristic Publishing Co.
    [Show full text]
  • The Discovery and Mapping of Australia's Coasts
    Paper 1 The Discovery and Mapping of Australia’s Coasts: the Contribution of the Dutch, French and British Explorer- Hydrographers Dorothy F. Prescott O.A.M [email protected] ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the mapping of Australia’s coasts resulting from the explorations of the Dutch, French and English hydrographers. It leaves untouched possible but unproven earlier voyages for which no incontrovertible evidence exists. Beginning with the voyage of the Dutch yacht, Duyfken, in 1605-6 it examines the planned voyages to the north coast and mentions the more numerous accidental landfalls on the west coast of the continent during the early decades of the 1600s. The voyages of Abel Tasman and Willem de Vlamingh end the period of successful Dutch visitations to Australian shores. Following James Cook’s discovery of the eastern seaboard and his charting of the east coast, further significant details to the charts were added by the later expeditions of Frenchmen, D’Entrecasteaux and Baudin, and the Englishmen, Bass and Flinders in 1798. Further work on the east coast was carried out by Flinders in 1799 and from 1801 to 1803 during his circumnavigation of the continent. The final work of completing the charting of the entire coastline was carried out by Phillip Parker King, John Clements Wickham and John Lort Stokes. It was Stokes who finally proved the death knell for the theory fondly entertained by the Admiralty of a great river flowing from the centre of the continent which would provide a highroad to the interior. Stokes would spend 6 years examining all possible river openings without the hoped- for result.
    [Show full text]
  • Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia
    XIV Mapping our world The maps seemed to have a life which was essentially XV paradoxical, being both ancient and contemporary in the same moment. They showed recognisable worlds which had been changed by more recent knowledge and cartographic handiwork, and yet preserved the past in the Matthew Flinders, General Chart of Terra Australis Maps are perhaps the most intriguing and revealing of immediacy and colour of the present. or Australia: showing the parts explored between 1798 visual documents. Their presence is felt from the first The thoughtful gaze of viewers was generously reciprocated and 1803 by M. Flinders Commr. of H.M.S. Investigator experience of a school atlas or globe to Google maps of by the rich, storied surfaces of the encyclopaedic array of (detail), London, 1814 (corrected to 1822) our backyards and streets. The form and content of maps charts, globes and atlases. Whether they visited because NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA, CANBERRA, have changed markedly over the centuries, and Mapping TOOLEY COLLECTION, MAP T 1494 they loved maps, were map collectors, or just wanted Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia takes as one of its to experience the rarity and splendour of a memorable starting points this fascinating story of transformation: cartographic exhibition was hard to determine. The maps the development of cartography since the first speculative in these exhibitions seemed to make viewers slow down, maps emerged from the ancient world. Piece by piece, and perhaps travel a little way with the mapmaker, beyond through imagination and exploration, the world has aspects of cartography and history and into the realm of been charted, often at great cost, and now in the early the imagination.
    [Show full text]
  • Cartografías De Implicación E Imaginación Geográfica En La Creación De Pars Quinta. La Tierra Austral De Guillaume Le Testu (S.XVI)
    Cartografías de implicación e imaginación geográfica en la creación de Pars Quinta. La Tierra Austral de Guillaume Le Testu (s.XVI) Carolina Martínez CONICET – Universidad Nacional de San Martín / Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Resumen: En el transcurso del siglo XVI, las expectativas políticas y económicas en torno al descubrimiento de una supuestamente existente Tierra Austral condujeron a la producción de objetos cartográficos específicos. Mapas, planos y atlas insinuaron la Cuadernos de existencia de una Quinta Pars, recreando la apariencia y localización de esta tierra incógnita en distintos soportes visuales. El análisis minucioso de los doce mapas in-folio Historia Cultural que Guillaume Le Testu dedicó a Terra Australis en su Cosmographie Universelle de 1556 revela que fue la imaginación geográfica comprendida en la creación de Pars Quinta la que la convirtió en una fuerza impulsora de la expansión ultramarina en la temprana modernidad. Revista de Estudios de Historia de la Cultura, Palabras clave: Imaginación geográfica, Tierra Austral, Quinta Pars, Guillaume Le Testu, cosmografía. Mentalidades, Económica y Social Cartographies of Implication and Geographical Imagination in the Making of Pars Quinta. Guillaume Le Testu’s Terra Australis (S. XVI). Abstract: Throughout the 16th century, the political and economic expectations built Nº 9, ISSN 0719-1030, around the discovery of a supposedly existent Southern Land gave way to the production of specific cartographic objects. Maps, charts and atlases hinted at the Viña del Mar, 2020 existence of a Quinta Pars, recreating the appearance and location of this elusive land in diverse visual media. An in-depth analysis of the twelve in-folio maps Guillaume Le Testu dedicated to Terra Australis in his 1556 Cosmographie Universelle reveals it was the geographical imagination involved in the making of Pars Quinta that turned it into a driving force of overseas expansion in the Early Modern Age.
    [Show full text]
  • The Endeavour River and Cooktown
    The Endeavour River and Cooktown by S. E. STEPHENS " The Endeavour River in Cape York Peninsula shares with Somerset and Cardwell and close to the inner steamer passage, Botany Bay in New South Wales the distinction of having had to be an excellent reason for its development as a port on the an extended visit by Captain James Cook in H:>M:.5. "Endea­ Torres Strait shipping route to England. Furthermore he thought vour" during the year 1770. But whilst the pause of one week the headwaters of the river contained good pastoral country3. in Botany Bay was to permit the naturalists in the ship's company to go ashore each day to examine an~ collect n~tural A few years later a much more urgent reason for a port at history specimens, the stay in the Endeavour RIver occupIe~ .a the Endeavour River developed. In 1872 William Hann carried period of seven weeks of encampment on the shore. The VISIt out an overland exploration journey from Maryvale Station into to the Endeavour River thus marked the establishment of the Cape York Peninsula. During ~is travels he discovere~ and first English "settlement" on what later became Australian soil. named the Palmer River after SIr Arthur Palmer, PremIer of Certainly the settlement had no part in the plans of Captain Queensland. In this river he found traces of gold. James Cook but was forced upon him when his misadventure on the Venture Mulligan with a party of prospectors followed up this coral reef some forty miles to the south east on 11 June 1770 hint and found payable gold oo.c:the Palmer early in 1873.
    [Show full text]
  • A Review of the Existing Literature on the Environmental Effects of Wyangala Dam
    A Review of the Existing Literature on the Environmental Effects of Wyangala Dam Adam Richardson Gavin Rees Darren Baldwin ….. August 2005 Murray–Darling Freshwater Research Centre P.O. Box 991 Wodonga VIC 3689 An MDFRC Consultancy Report for State Water P.O Box 3720 Parramatta NSW 2124 A Review of the Existing Literature on the Environmental Effects of Wyangala Dam A report prepared for State Water Corporation by the Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre. For further information contact: Adam Richardson, Gavin Rees or Darren Baldwin Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre PO Box 991 Wodonga VIC 3689 Ph (02) 60582300 Fax (02) 60597531 e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] August 2005 Disclaimer – The Murray-Darling Basin Commission and CSIRO Land and Water (Trustee and Centre Agent) as joint venture partners in the Murray-Darling Freshwater Research Centre do not guarantee that this publication is without error of any kind, nor do they guarantee the information contained in this report will be appropriate in all instances and therefore, to the extent permitted by law, they exclude all liability to any person for any consequences, including but not limited to, all losses, damages, costs, expenses and any other compensation arising directly or indirectly from using this report (in part or in whole) and any information or material contained in it. ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Lachlan Valley is one of the most important agricultural regions in Australia; it covers only 10% of New South Wales yet accounts for 14% of the state’s agricultural production. Lake Wyangala is the major water storage in the Lachlan Valley and is located downstream of the junction of the Abercrombie and Lachlan rivers, about 45 km south-west of Cowra.
    [Show full text]